Battle Log

Toowong (QLD) Team

Tuesday, 23 July, 2024

Posted by Posted 23 July 2024, 5:28 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 23th 2024 from 1330-1430

Praised and thanks God that Edwin can join the Toowong Gospel outreach team regularly on Tuesday during his Bible College school terms and attend the Sunnybank team during term break. With him, God uses us collectively to reach out to many more people predominantly students. The number of people flow increased apparently after the beginning of a new college term. As usual, there were mainly first timers but from time to time second timers or more for our follow up chat. Recap below is the Battle log of Hung.

1) UQ Student from India who has heard before so did the revision and follow up chat again and found no argument against the logic

of the gospel message.

2) Next a Southeast Asia English speaking girl possibly from Malaysia, happy to chat with an open mind.

3) Then caught up with a young lad from La of USA. Reason coming to Australia is just to widen his world view and exposures as such relatively open for a chat on life issues.

4) Next is a girl by the name of Chan who has already come to Australia from HKG for 4 years. She basically is a Christian but weak in spirituality and lacking assurance of salvation. But she was happy to be introduced to Power to Change to gain access to more Christian support.

5) Met a Post graduate Master degree student from NanJing. Since he has been in Australia for a long time as such he is comparatively open minded for chatting on faith issues.

6) Declined by an Aussie girl as she was occupied in a phone conversation. She still politely ask for pardon and obviously she knew who we are and felt not offended.

7) Then came across another Chinese lady who claimed she is readily a seeker. However, she is still biased by the mindset of good deed count as such she cannot accept the idea that a good person only committed one sin will got same eternal death punishment with those very wicked bad guys with million of sin. Pray for another future follow up encounter to help removing her blind spot and spiritual pride.

8 ) Lastly caught up with a French girl who appeared cheerful to have a chat even about the gospel. The bus arrival cut short the gospel sharing and pray for future continuous follow up opportunities.


Tuesday, 16 July, 2024

Posted by Posted 16 July 2024, 6:10 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 16th 2024 from 1330-1430

It was rejoiceful that Edwin Qin joined Hung and Johnny from today onwards to do weekly outreach at Toowong. With his team work, the coverage dramatically increased. As a team, we did a good job under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Recap below is the Battlelog of Hung.

1) I was led to approach an UQ student from Cambodia, a Buddhist but still open enough to chat, yet just the started when his bus arrived and only handed him a tract.

2) Then Yvonne Chan of CCCB St Lucia approached me to chat about Restaurant worker Gospel. She wonder if QCCML has any one spending effort on this gospel needs, I encouraged her that she should pray if God will move and call her to help out in this gospel outreach field.

3) Taylor a Vietnamese with parents as Christians but he is not yet a believer. After the sharing of full gospel, he admitted there is no more doubt for him to make the last step of faith to accept Jesus as his savior.

4) Then I caught up with a mum with her young baby kid from Hebei She admitted no one is perfect she inclusive, but she argue that there is no need to be perfect. . I did not drag on to argue with her and just let go.

5) Then I approached a girl from Thailand who is already a Christian and attending local Aussie church. Just don't have time to check her assurance of salvation.

6) Then I was led to approach an Indian girl who claimed we chatted before. But she used the excuse of busy to end my approach.

7) Then I was led to meet Yang from Hebei , who is rarely a Christian already from house church background. Yet he only have 60% of assurance of salvation and had been clarified to professed 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Hugo, a local Aussie but parents are from France. He is non-religious and have a rational mindset as a Mechanic Engineering student. Yet he open to gospel and ahs a softened heart to embrace gospel as a logical expression and promised to ponder and accept Jesus in His time soon.


Tuesday, 9 July, 2024

Posted by Posted 10 July 2024, 1:05 AM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 9th 2024 from 1330-1430

Another normal day for street outreach by Johnny and Hung as a team. There were occasional rejections but majority were friendly and open sharing of Gospel with nonbelievers as well as nominal Christians. In His name and His strength, we could work with God on mission to reach out souls from near and or afar all by the grace and election of God.

1) Ashley local Aussie girl, shared full gospel and 100% receptive

2) John elderly Migrant from Poland since 7 years old, might be of Catholic background, admitted we are all imperfect sinners all need Jesus. But still not 100% sure and clear about the basis of salvation is all the work of Jesus dying for us.

3) A French Working holiday now has job as landscaper. He wants to be a pilot , just did not have time for the Gospel but delighted to take a tract.

4) Bangladesh Muslim man doing a PHD degree in mining engineering marketing with a Mathematic back ground. Despite a scientist mind, he was the rare one regarding Mohammad as person of perfect.

5) Then caught up with an Australian born Indian girl who did not have enough patience to chat while she had her sandwich lunch.

6) Local Brissie with Scottish and Poland blood appeared to be a nominal Christian with assurance of salvation.

7) Masha with a Taiwanese dad and an Aussie mum who at the end admit she is a Christian after I had shared her the full Gospel.

8 ) Another ABC whose parents possibly from Hongkong. He fully understood the message but appear a bit indifference though he still patiently let me finished the sharing


Tuesday, 2 July, 2024

Posted by Posted 2 July 2024, 5:19 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 2nd 2024 from 1330-1430

It was a forecasted rainy day, but it is never a deterrence for Johnny and Hung to do street outreach. Moreso, Hung have the faith to bring no umbrella or wearing a raincoat. God again honored His promise to be with us while we were on mission with Him. The rain drifting down intermittently whole day did stop when we walked to the bus stop but rained again while we were doing outreach under the cover of the bus stop booth, then it stopped again to let us not get wet on our way back to Toowong Village. Also the work of the Holy Spirit was very prominent today, apart from a few avoidance people, whoever happy to chat with us from whatever country and even with different religions including atheist, they all appeared very open and receptive despite a few show initial reluctance or sarcastic attitude, they ended up showing God their thumb up to appreciate our insistence to share them the gospel. Any sign was the willingness to take selfie photo with me as a gesture of their appreciation for the gospel God used us to share with them. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) First I was led to approach a girl from Dubai who however was not religious. But she got connected with me because she is studying Psychology while I did a Master of counselling which is a joint venture between Psychology and Social Science. She showed openness to the gospel and appear convinced of the logic that whoever not perfect in our human character needs to accept Jesus as our savior.

2) Then Rejected by three persons.

3) Then I caught up with an Indonesia student doing Chemical engineering that allowed me to build rapport because of my past work experience with Indonesian Petermina petrol oil company. He also showed openness to the gospel.

4) Albin from India was very receptive to the gospel and ended up taking a selfie with me.

5) Natalie a girl from Chilean doing Marketing and communication, she is non-religious but was also convinced of the logical message of the gospel that whoever not perfect need Jesus as Savior to cleanse of all our sin. She was rejoiced to take selfie with me showing off the tract I gave her.

6) Then I was led to approach Kim. a Chinese look Kim Thai girl. She is a Buddhist but at the end, also convinced even the Buddha was not perfect and need a Savior, not to mention us, the ordinary good persons.

7) Finally I have a long chat with Bessy a French men coming to Australia on working holiday visa. He is also non religious but have a kingdom mind set to make friends with people of all nations and come to Australia to improve his English. He also fully accept the logic and admitted he need Jesus.


Tuesday, 25 June, 2024

Posted by Posted 25 June 2024, 5:02 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday June 25th, 2024 from 1330-1430

It was a pleasant Winter afternoon, but a comparatively quiet one. Yet, both Johnny and Hung still got divine appointments through the led of the Holy Spirit. We were graceful to serve with God this way that we are both the first hand beneficiary out of this Gospel preaching ministry. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1) Fouzia an UQ student from Ethiopia and visibly a Muslim in Islamic costume. But she appeared very receptive to gospel and accept the logical need of all good persons for Jesus as our Savior to take our place for the punishment of our sin. She wanted to take a selfie with me but the bus would not wait. Thanks to Johnny having taken a photo of us from the back.

2) Next approached a Mainlander young man who also was willing to chat but the bus came too quick.

3) Natalie a Filipino with family of Catholic background but she herself is not yet a believer. but still a pursuer. She also thanked for my gospel sharing.

4) Then I was led to chat with an Uganda high school student. He claimed he is from a Christian family. So I test his assurance of salvation which fall short of 100% but stays at 80% Managed to clarify with him and he showed appreciation by taking a selfie with me.

5) Then I was led to catch up with an ABC of Chinese parents. She alerted me to recall we had a chat before so I took the chance to have a revision on the gospel message with her and she sounded receptive to the message.

6) Last but not the least. I was led to approach a very modern girl by the name Li ?from Jinan, Shandong China ( ) Her hair is dyed golden orange. It did reflect her mindset is also quite open thus she did not shows resentment to hear the gospel and actually appeared very receptive to the logical deduction that as long as all human are imperfect, we all have the need for a Savior to take our place to receive the punishment of eternal death originally due on us. She accept our tract but asked for an English one.


Tuesday, 18 June, 2024

Posted by Posted 18 June 2024, 5:48 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday June 18th, 2024 from 1330-1430

It was yet another cheerful and glorious day of gospel outreach under the warm Winter sun. There mixed reaction but overall speaking, we could feel the hands of God behind each and every divine appointment whether a smooth or difficult conversation, God was always in control. Both Johnny and Hung had some long and quality conversations with either first timer or people with multiple chats. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach first a Japanese girl who comes to learn English at the Language School of UQ. Mt Japanese greeting aroused her interest and allow me to share the full gospel to her till the bus came.

2) Linghan an English speaking Malaysian, though claimed to be an Atheist, but appeared very open and receptive to the gospel sharing as he could not find any illogicality in the need of a Salvation as it is universally agreed that no human is perfect as such we all need a Savior to redeem us from the bondage and judgement of sin. I at one moment even thought he is readily a Christian but on parting he told me he actually is an Atheist. So I can only claim this is the miraculous work of the Spirit to soften his heart turning him around to admit he also needs Jesus. He showed his appreciation by taking a selfie joyfully with me.

3) Then I had a brief chat with a young man from Nanjing who comes to study engineer at UQ. He showed impartially to gospel sharing and took a tract at the end.

4) Then I caught up with a Head student from SMT called Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology, a selective State School for elite student founded in 2007. She has around 15-20 badges of honor pinned on her overcoat life those veteran did on Anzac day parade. It was a perfect illustration of how a good or even excellent person she is but still she needs salvation like every body else as long as she admitted she is still imperfect.

5) Then I was led to catch up with a Belarus girl Valerian who is non religious but still friendly to listen to the gospel and took a tract at the end.

6) Another long chat with Anna an ABC of half Aussie (Mom) and half Chinese (Dad). She finally disclosed she once a church going Christian but no more. I encourage her to reconnect with God as we must remain in Him to be able to keep growing towards perfection through the life transformation work of the Holy Spirit, on top of the foundation of Jesus' redemptive grace granting us readily the long lost heavenly citizenship and life of eternity. She was graceful for my sharing and joyfully took a selfie with me.

7) Lastly, I caught up with a girl form Shanghai. It was a pity there was not enough time for full Gospel and she also took no tract at the end.

 


Monday, 3 June, 2024

Posted by Posted 4 June 2024, 5:22 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday June 4th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Praised be to God, Ben as introduced and led by Gladys both from Toowong Baptist, joined Hung and Johnny today for the first time after an unsuccessful connection two weeks ago when Hung was away on a mission trip to North Qld and Johnny was not available as occupied by a Medical appointment. We wasted no time to do our opening prayer and than chatted along the walk to the bus station. I briefed about the Biblical basis for street multi=cultural outreach, and the way we do it. To my personal joy, all people I met to day were opened , friendly and receptive. Recap below was my Battle Log.

1) First I was led to approach a Hong Konger girl who is no believer but once studied in Christian school in HKG. So she was not completely strange to the gospel message, but she seemed receptive to the idea that as long as we are not perhaps, every normal good persons also need salvation.

2) Next I was led to approach a Muslim by the name Hashish from Bangladesh. Surprisingly he took in the gospel quite well without any preoccupied thought and did not feel offence to hear about Jesus as God and our savior. Happily he took selfie with mew as a gesture of appreciation for our frank and open chat.

3) Kai a local Aussie and UQ student , claimed himself a 50/50 split of Christian. SO I simply shared him the full gospel again and hopefully helped him to rekindle his love of God, Jesus and his salvation.

4) Then I was moved to approach a local Aussie girl, who is a non believers but was brought up from Christian School. We build rapport as she is studying Psychology while I was a Counselor student. She also appreciated hearing the Gospel that had rekindled her heart for Christianly when ahs was young.

5) Last but not the least I caught up with a person from Jiang Xi , he appeared very open and receptive to the gospel


Thursday, 16 May, 2024

Posted by Posted 16 May 2024, 6:29 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of the Gospel Outreach of Gold Coast Chinese Christian Church in the proximity of Australia Fair, South Port on Thursday May 16th 2024 from 1300 to 1430 and the Extra Toowong Outreach by Rev Kwan at more or less the same time period.

Today , only Paul and Fernanda were available for the weekly street outreach . All other regular team members were all occupied by some other appointment. i.e. Rev Kwan had to send his wife to Brisbane Private Hospital for the last rehab body check up at 1 pm that will last for 2 hours. So Rev Kwan switched to do street outreach at a near by place at Toowong. Thanks God stopping the rain and let me share with many non believers with good result. As soon as Rev Kwan finished and had to rush to hospital to pick up his wife. The rain fell down poring again. So virtually, God had opened up a window of opportunity to allow Rev Kwan serve in a dry condition for His Kingdom sake,

1) Ahmed, an Iranian Muslim but not a firm Islamic follower. I could feel his initial resistance to talk about Jesus, but was moved to build rapport first rendering praise for the Iranian Christians while receiving Christ overseas like in Australia, majority of them chose to return to Iran to plant church and some even send themselves to near neighbor country like Türkiye having so far built 100 or more Iranian Christian churches to cross culturally evangelize the younger Türkiye generations. It gave him the sense of pride for the marvelous thing his compatriot have done. It consequently has softened his heart by the Spirit to open up to understand and appreciate the Gospel. We end up happily taking selfie to leave a mark in this divine encounter.

2) Then I was led to catch up with Zheng ? from Guangzhou . He was open for chatting from a materialism advocate point of view . I nevertheless only had time to share half of the gospel. Pray for God's follow up work.

3) Then I was led to approach a local Aussie girl with a wig of purpose color. It implies she is an attention seeking person. Before I started sharing the gospel, I use the clue of Fair Dinkum to build rapport. But curiously, she suddenly turned irritative when asked something she does not know and appeared scared? It was a very rare reaction. Just pray for God's continuous guardiancy to lead her to salvation.

4) Next I caught up with an UQ student from Indian. He was open and friendly, but was able to share the nutshell of the gospel.

5) Finally, I was led to connect with Achars, an Indianan of Hinduism but was born here in Australian. But the family religion affiliation heavily impacted his religious and world view emphasizing that it is up to individual to lead a righteous and fruitful life. But at the end , he admitted no one is perfect and righteous enough to earn our way to heaven. It was a significant and good shift of world view paradigm.

6) And finally I caught up with a lady from Jiangxi Nanchong . She admitted she is an Athiest but she once received the OOPN 513 gospel tract at the kGS possibly from Ryan's week end physical team. But she took initialtive to take two tract Chinese and English so in a sense she was half open to know more about God though her preoccupation of atheism limited her to think beyond the box of our limited human mind and awareness. . Yet evidently, she was moved to re-examine the message of Gospel in a serious manner. Pray for God mercy and grace to guide her to make her last step of action faith.


Tuesday, 7 May, 2024

Posted by Posted 7 May 2024, 5:39 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday May 7th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Today my regular outreach team partner is away to Melbourne for a week. So, I went to do solo again with amazing divine encounters obviously orchestrated by God as recap below. The weather was down cast but fine. Yet the sky turned dark and with rain down pouring in the middle of my outreach ministry. Eventually I had to end a bit earlier because of the heavy down pour got everybody hiding for shelter not coming yet to the bus stop. God grace was sufficient and the sky turn bright half an hour later when I was on my way home.

1) 1minute only left for my first approach. It was a young Aussie guy who walked past me on our way to the bus stop. I was urged still to approach him despite his bus was coming in a minute. He was all open and friendly and mistaken that I will also take the bus with him to continue our chat. I anyway can manage to just give him a tract. I can only trust God that this hasty contact is still a meaningful one.

2) Then I was drawn to approach first a young English-speaking lady from Malaysia. She is a non-believer but appear receptive to the gospel message I shared that have led to a conclusion that as long as we admit no one including ourself is perfect, we all need a Savior to die for us and take our place to receive the punishment of our sins.

3) Then her friend came and is from Indonesia. To my surprise, she is a Christian back home in Indonesia. And I encouraged her to follow up with her Malaysian friend towards final conversion. And I also took the chance to test for here assurance of Salvation when the bus arrived. Though in a hurry, she was good and spot on to have 100 % of assurance with the right basis of trusting in Jesus alone. We hurriedly took a selfie to record this special divine encounter.

4) Then I was led to approach Lucas, again was the 2nd Indonesian for the day. What surprise me was that he is also a Christian from a Christian family in Indonesia but also a practicing Christian attending his own denominational Presbyterian church in the City here in Brisbane. What further surprise me was, he also got perfect understanding of salvation and 100 % assurance of salvation. It really encouraged me that Gid can reign in Indonesia a Muslim country with an extraordinarily higher than average ratio of Christian. He was also very happy and pleased to take a selfie with me.

5) Then I was next led to meet up with Flora, yet another Malaysian for the day. She is also non-Christians and possibly a Muslim and she is Malay rather than Chinese. She showed initial hesitance to chat with me a stranger but stay put to let me share her the full gospel. It seemed that she was overwhelming convinced and eventually lost for word to show any disagreement.

6) Then I was led to approach a Mainlander girl by the name of Zheng ? from Beijing I was moved to start with my personal testimony especially the time and work I served in Sichuan China as an earthquake disaster relief volunteer . She was amazed by the power of Jesus helping vulnerable people to get healed from their early life emotional failure. Even though I did not have time to share the gospel, but she willingly took the tract and I believed God might have a better way to touch her heart.

7) Lastly, I approached the only Mainlander girl left at the bus stop because of abrupted rain fall. Her reaction was fear and rejection to hear the gospel. It was a big contrast to Zheng showing that it was really by the grace of God that some are elected to turn away from sin but to Christ.


Tuesday, 30 April, 2024

Posted by Posted 30 April 2024, 6:30 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 30th, 2024 from 1030-1130

Today my regular outreach team partner was not available due to personal matter. I went to do solo having mixed results as recap below:

1) I was clearly led to approach a girl after the long queue was cleared up by the quick arriving bus but she was still there waiting for another bus. She is born here but her parents were from UK. And to my surprise I met for the first time a persons of Judaism faith, seemingly form family heritance. She was determined to reject believing Jesus was the prophesized Messiah. She appeared open throughout but try to avoid further discussion on Jesus. I Used Bible to convince her Jesus is readily the prophesied Messiah or the descendant of woman as per Gen 3:15b. She appeared nervous when I produce more proof of the person of Jesus as God and as our Saviour. It gave me the feeling that the people of Judaism faith is even a harder people group to share them the personality and work of Jesus.

2) Thrive a mature young man from Townsville who claimed to have chatted with me one year ago. Somehow, he forgot about the tract so I revised the Gospel message and rekindled his thoughts how to respond to salvation by grace offered by Jesus to us the sinners. He was happy to take a selfie with me in case we meet quickly next time.

3) Another Gold Coast boy of computer science major is non-religious but still appeared open for a chat on the gospel message. Though the time only allowed me for just the nutshell of the Gospel. But he seemingly was in agreement of the facts and logic that anyone imperfect need Jesus as our Savior.

4) Then I caught up with a Cambodia girl who claimed having a chat with Johnny before. That conversation still did not convince her to have the need of any religion, but I stressed the need is there and urgent for anyone who is not perfect that she agreed and accepted that no o0ne including herself is perfect.

5) Lastly, I tried to approached first two mainlander Chinese, who appeared reluctant to engage for a chat though they did not give me an outright rejection. After a while the third girl joined and sat right beside me. And she is Cantonese speaking too, so I switched to share with her instead of all of them. But, eventually all three mainlanders excused not to chat despite my effort to share ? I lamented that in general, Mainlanders are the hardest people group to do outreach than any others even harder than the Judaism and Muslim people.

6) Another noteworthy happening is:

A lady sitting at the bench underneath the Pedestrian walking bridge, seemingly waiting for people on my way to begin my outreach at the bus stop. But after I finished, when I got to that spot we used to do closing prayer, she was still there but seemingly chatting with a stranger. So Suddenly I felt warm as I might have witness another Street gospel outreach warrior there


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